Click on each image for a closer look!.The city of York in the U.K. is synonymous with Britain’s railways. Roughly half-way between London and Edinburgh on the East Coast Main Line, York became an important crew change and refueling point. Today, the National Railway Museum and one of the busiest
Click on each image for a closer look!.Sunday morning found the class room sessions for our steam locomotive driver’s course wrapping up with an examination. Congratulations to the seven volunteers who all passed their steam locomotive theory exam with flying colours. The class will move on to practical studies as
Click on each image for a closer look!.This past Saturday found our crew of volunteers busy at numerous project s throughout the three stalls. Projects addressed included: Refinishing of the TH&B Caboose’s Conductor’s left cupola bench Stripping the rotten wood off the flat car Making more platforms to cover the
Click on each picture for a closer look!.The Canadian Association of Railway Modellers (CARM) was formed in October of 2003 to: to inspire. to foster fellowship among railway modellers throughout Canada. to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and skills between railway modellers. to promote the hobby of
Click on the images for a closer look! Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major railway oriented events that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: February 16, 2001: Canadian
Click on each image for a closer look!.We had a full and eventful Sunday culminating in success! Everything we had planned for the weekend is now complete. After the steam locomotive drivers’ class this morning, we got right back into it at 12:30 and finally completed the equipment shuffle planned
Click on each image for a closer look!.We had a great turn out of people today (Saturday) If I try and list everyone I will certainly miss someone so I won’t but would like to welcome a new volunteer, Dan, and thank all of our volunteers for coming out..It was
Click on each image for a closer look!.This information and these images come from my wife’s family. Her father. the late Frank “Barney” Barnes, was, at the time that he became a CPR engineer, the youngest person to do so in the history of the CPR. Yet he was 38
Click on each image for a closer look!.In this interesting pair of pictures, Stephen Gardiner, one of our volunteers, has captured the view out of the front windows of the F7 Cab into the three stalls of the Roundhouse where our restoration work continues..In this view, we see the Jackman
Click on the image for a closer look!.Bruce Reynolds was a pipe fitter and car mechanic on the CN for 35 years. Bruce has donated one of the original brochures for the LRC and a CN Coffee pot originally from a CN caboose. Many thanks, Bruce!.In the picture above we